Date:         Sun, 13 Apr 2003 08:27:31 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Cleaning corroded connectors
Comments: To: swright@ZUIKO.SLS.BC.CA
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You can pack the connections with anything you want that will not collect
moisture and acts as a moisture barrier. Regular old nonmetallic wheel
grease is better than nothing.
Go to the marine dealer and get the grease they use in boat trailer light
bulbs.
I got 12 years out of my bulbs on my last boat trailer.
Call it what you will and write a thousand word of protest to my
terminology but its just a way to seal the connector.

Stan


On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:29:15 -0700 Shawn Wright <swright@ZUIKO.SLS.BC.CA>
writes:
> Stan,
>
> I assumed you meant to say conductive, instead of nonconductive,
> since 3M makes
> a conductive silicone grease. Is there also a nonconductive version?
> (I know little
> about this stuff, but plan on getting some tomorrow if I can find
> it).
> I always figured it was better to have a conductive grease, as it
> can possibly lower
> the resistance at the connector by increasing the contact area. But
> this only applies
> to single conductor connectons of course. For multiple conductor
> connections as
> many of the FI ones are, nonconductive makes sense.
> In my case, I find any of the FI connectors with the spring release
> sealed boots (ie:
> the fuel injectors, AFM, temp sensors, etc) are *very* good at
> sealing out the
> elements. My van has an incredible amount of corrosion in the engine
> compartment
> in general (300k km of its life spent in Ontario), yet all of these
> connectors seem to
> have no corrosion when pulled apart. The exposed ground connections
> are a
> different story. I snapped the ground bolt to driver side body off a
> few years ago, and
> today the ground bolt to the driver side head broke off as I tried
> to remove it to clean
> the connections. I used the adjacent allan-head bolt holding a metal
> coolant line
> instead, for now. I'm going to get some heavy gauge cable tomorrow &
> try to
> establish a solid ground from the alterntor to the body on the other
> side, so this
> ground should be less critcal.
>
> On 12 Apr 2003 at 21:17, Stan Wilder wrote:
>
> > What did I not say?.
> > We don't want to conduct electricity.
> > We want to seal the FI wiring plug-ins against moisture.
> > Hopefully if they are sealed against moisture and dirt it will be
> less
> > corrosive.
> >
> > Stan Wilder
> >
> > On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 18:48:01 -0700 Shawn Wright
> <swright@ZUIKO.SLS.BC.CA>
> > writes:
> > > I assume you mean conductive...?
> > >
> > > On 12 Apr 2003 at 18:10, Stan Wilder wrote:
> > >
> > > > Clean them very good then pack them with nonconductive
> silicone
> > > grease.
>
> Shawn Wright, I.T. Manager
> Shawnigan Lake School
> swright@SLS.bc.ca
> http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright
> http://www.sls.bc.ca
>
>

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